Tech Boss Unveils 22-Point Plan for the West's Future

Palantir's latest ideological push landed with unusual force because it came from a company already embedded in taxpayer-funded systems. The firm posted a 22-point summary of The Technological Republic, the book by chief executive Alex Karp and head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska, and used it to argue that Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that enabled its rise, that national service should be part of the conversation, and that AI weapons are unavoidable. The thread also defended a harder Western posture, including a rebuke of the postwar treatment of Germany and Japan, making clear that this was not a routine corporate message but an argument about how the West should organize power.

The scrutiny question is sharper because Palantir is not speaking from outside government. NHS England says a Palantir-led consortium won the NHS Federated Data Platform contract in November 2023 through an open tender, and that the platform is NHS-controlled, designed to connect vital health information and improve care. Parliament records show the NHS deal carries a value of up to £330 million over seven years. The Ministry of Defence then awarded Palantir a follow-on enterprise agreement signed on December 30, 2025, worth £240.6 million including VAT, to support data analytics for critical strategic, tactical and live operational decision-making across defence.

That dual role explains why the manifesto has set off alarm beyond the usual online outrage cycle. Medact’s March briefing warned that Palantir’s involvement in NHS data infrastructure raises patient trust, ethics, privacy, institutional risk and staff concerns, while MPs have called for greater transparency around the defence award and the public interest in how the decision was made. The issue is not simply whether a tech executive has strong views. It is whether a company that helps manage sensitive health data and defence analytics should face tighter scrutiny when its leadership publicly advances a political doctrine about culture, security and the West’s future.

For ministers, NHS leaders and procurement officials, the accountability test is straightforward. If public bodies are going to rely on private software for patient pathways, operational planning and live military decision-making, they need more than technical assurances. They need clear disclosure, firm governance and real exit options, because the values a contractor publicly promotes can affect confidence in the systems it runs and the people whose data those systems hold.